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Liverpool have moved one win away from sealing England’s Premier League title as substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold secured a 1-0 victory at Leicester City, which condemned their hosts to relegation. Leicester, needing to beat the leaders to stave off relegation for a few more days, were holding their own on Sunday. But Alexander-Arnold fired home in the 76th minute after the ball came to him following a goalmouth scramble. Liverpool could be crowned champions on Wednesday should Arsenal lose at home to Crystal Palace. If the Gunners avoid defeat, Arne Slot’s men have the chance to seal the deal when Tottenham…

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, took social media heat after arguing that President Donald Trump is worse than an alleged member of the notorious MS-13 gang.”She got a bad case of [Trump Derangement Syndrome],” one social media user said of Crockett Saturday, adding that the lawmaker “knows we Texans are coming for her seat in Congress in 2026.”The comment comes after Crockett’s interview with MSNBC host Katie Phang on Saturday, where the Democratic lawmaker said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant who was recently deported, was “a lot less criminal” than Trump.ASMINE CROCKETT TEARS UP AS CANCELED MSNBC HOST THANKS HER…

An officer-involved shooting took place on Easter Sunday in National Harbor, Maryland. Police say around 8:20 a.m. officers responded to a stabbing call, where a man and a woman were found with “critical stab wounds.””Before fleeing that scene, the suspect also set fire to the apartment,” Prince George’s County Police Department Chief Malik Aziz said during a media conference. “Officers learned the stabbing was domestic-related, and the suspect was known to the victims.”Less than two hours later, “Officers responded to the National Harbor where they encountered the suspect in that earlier stabbing at St. George Blvd and Potomac Passage. The suspect…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 20, 2025 2:25 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hamilton’s fire chief says an early-morning blaze currently considered suspicious has damaged multiple stores at a strip mall in the city. David Cunliffe issued a statement saying crews were called to the fire at the mall on Upper Ottawa Street shortly before 3 a.m. on Easter Sunday. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. He says the fire began in a hair and nail salon within the mall but quickly spread to nearby units and triggered multiple alarms.Cunliffe says…

Tensions were high as benches cleared for the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners on Saturday night. The reason was Blue Jays starter Jose Berrios confronted Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh, who the former believed was telling his teammates what pitches were coming while he was on base. Berrios and Raleigh were passing one another when an inning came to an end, and the pitcher was clearly saying his piece to the catcher, which led to both of them needing to be held back by their teammates. Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh hits a double off of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jose Berrios…

Liverpool have relegated Leicester with a 1-0 win at the King Power but will have to wait a while longer to be crowned Premier League champions after Arsenal routed Ipswich 4-0.Runaway league leaders Liverpool need six more points to claim a record-equalling 20th title, but three would have been enough if Arsenal had lost at Ipswich.That never looked likely after Leandro Trossard and Gabriel Martinelli gave Arsenal a 2-0 half-time lead at Portman Road.Leif Davis was then sent off for a high challenge on the back of Bukayo Saka’s calf, leading to Socceroo Cam Burgess coming on.Saka played on but…

Palestinian Christians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have marked a second sombre Easter under punishing conditions and Israel’s war on Gaza. In the Gaza Strip, where no food or aid has been allowed in by the Israeli military for nearly 50 days, people observed Easter on Sunday at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City amid death and destruction. Easter celebrations were limited to religious rituals as families cancelled other gatherings fearing more bombs would be dropped by Israeli warplanes, which killed dozens of people in the besieged enclave on Sunday. Israeli forces bombed…

Washington — Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Sunday that El Salvador “tried really hard” to prevent him from seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, before the government reversed course late last week.”I think they realized that that was not a good look at the end of the day,” Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who lived in Maryland who was sent last month to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison as part of a White House effort, although the administration later admitted in court that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly among…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government in the Harvard Kennedy School and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US TreasuryDonald Trump has already withdrawn the US from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization. Is the IMF next?Project 2025, the controversial and radical policy manifesto for a second Trump term issued by the Heritage Foundation think-tank, advocates US withdrawal from the fund. The authors argue that the IMF espouses economic theories…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A Lloyd’s of London insurance broker has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office over alleged bribes paid to officials in Ecuador via US intermediaries to land contracts from state-owned companies in the Andean nation.United Insurance Brokers Limited, a reinsurance broker that operates in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, was on Thursday charged with failing to prevent bribes paid to Ecuadorean officials between 2013 and 2016. Representatives of UIB, created in 1987 through a management buyout of Marsh McLennan’s Middle East…